Shy and Stavins (2015) showed that in 2012 U.S. merchants rarely took advantage of their recent freedom to differentiate prices based on the method of payment use. The authors of this paper use new data from the 2015 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice to analyze price discounts and surcharges...

Media reports could help shape consumer attitudes towards food quality and safety. By introducing an information treatment with positive or negative media coverage, we study the impact on consumer preference for pork products. The hypothesis is tested by a hypothetical choice experiment with 788...

The literature on food economics has extensively analyzed consumer preferences for extra-virgin olive oil attributes. In order to summarize and systematize the information gained in recent years, it seems appropriate to make a critique of the existing literature. First, we carry out a narrative...

Nutrition labeling is the provision of information about nutrition content of individual food products at the point of purchase. Decades of marketing and nutrition research have been devoted to analyze how consumers perceive, process and respond to different nutrition label types and formats. In...